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He is ridiculous. I can do anything legal with the purchased file, that's my basic right as a customer.
by greyman 18y ago
He is ridiculous. I can do anything legal with the purchased file, that's my basic right as a customer.
- witten 18y agoEven with Amazon's DRM?
- herval 18y agoyour basic right as a customer is doing anything that the usage agreement of your product allows. You can't buy a CD, for instance, and play it in a show (at least not in most countries, since this can be defined as profiting from that profit, and you didn't buy that right when you bought the CD). You can't also play a DVD in an oil rig, school bus or any other public place (that's on the DVD agreement, right there when you turn it on). And if having your book reproduced as audio offends the 'Book Guild agreement', then you probably can't do it 'legally'. Ouch. Yes, that's ridiculous - but that's as far as your 'basic rights' go...
- eli 18y agoNo you can't. Maybe that's the way it should be, but you certainly can't read that book to an audience or crack the DRM and print out copies for your friends.
- greyman 18y agoI know, but I wrote "anything legal". Reading the book to an audience might not be legal, but running it through the reading software at my home certainly is not illegal.
- jerf 18y agoI don't disagree with you, but that's still begging the question.
- Nwallins 18y agothat's still begging the question. What is? This is the salient point: running it through the reading software at my home certainly is not illegal.
- jerf 18y agoYou beg the question of whether it's legal or not. You claim it's legal because it's legal. I totally agree that it should be, but I disagree that this has been established in any legal sense. Personally I think the evidence points in the direction of "it has never been considered legally".